Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-01

houses repeatedly, for opposing, with
manly firmness, his invasions on the
rights Of the people.
He has refused, for long time after
such dissolutions, to cause others to
be elected; whereby the legislative
powers, incapable of annihilation, have
returned to the people at large for
their exercise; the State remaining,
in the meantime, exposed to all the
danger of invasion from without, and
convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the
population of these Statee; for that
purpose, obstructing the laws for the
naturalization of foreigners; refusing
to pass others to encourage their mi
grafton hither, and raising the condi-
tons of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administra-
ton Of justice, by refusing to assent to
laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on
his will alone, for the tenure of their
Offices, and the amount and payment
of their salaries.
He has erected multitude OF new
offices, and sent hither swarms Of Off
GERS to harrass our people, and eat out
their substance.
He has kept among US, in times of
peace, standing armies, without the
consent Of our Legislatures.
He has affected to render the mill
tary independent of, and superior to,
the civil power.
He has combined with others to
subject us to jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution, and unacknowledged
by our laws; giving his assent to their
acts Of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies OF armed
troops among us;
For protecting them, by q mock
trial, from punishment, for any MUIR
ders which they should commit on the
inhabitants OF these States;
For cutting off our trade with all
parts Of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without
our consent;
For depriving rs, in many cases, OF
the benefit of trial by jury;
For transporting US beyond seas to
be tried for pretended offences;
For abolishing the free system of
English laws in neighboring prov
ince, establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and enlarging its boun-
daries, 80 az to render it at once an ex-
ample and fit instrument for introduc-
ing the same absolute rule into these
colonies;
For taking away our charters, sb0l-
ishing our most valuable laws. and al
tering, fundamentally. the powers Of
| our governmental
For suspending our own legislatures
and declaring themselves invested
with power to legislate for us in all
cases whatsoever.
He has addicted government here,
by declaring us out Of his protection,
and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns, and de-
stroyed the lives Of our people.
He is, at this time. transporting
large armies Of foreign mercenaries to
complete the works Of death, desOla-
ton and tyranny already begun, with
circumstances of cruelty and per6dy
scarcely paralleled in the most barbar-
Gus ages, and totally unworthy the
head of q civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citi-
Gems, taken captive ON the high seas,
TO bear arms against their country, to
become the executioners Of their
friends and brethren, or to fall them
selves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrec-
tioQe amongst us, and has endeavOred
TO bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers the merciless Indian savages,
whose known rule of warfare is An un-
distinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these expressions,
we have petitioned for redress, in the
most humble terms; our repeated Pc
titions have been answered only by re-
peated injury. A prince, whose char
acter is thus marked by every act
which may define tyrant, is unfit to
be ruler Of free people.
Nor have we been wanting in atten-
ton to our British brethren. We
have warned them, from time 20 time,
of attempts made by their legislature
to extend unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them Of
the circumstances Of our emigration
and settlement here. We have ap-
pealed to their native justice and mag
nanimity, and We have conjured them,
by the ties of our common kindred, to
disavow these usurpations, which
would inevitably interrupt our connec-
tions and correspondence. They, too,
have been deaf to the voice of justice
and consanguinity. We must, there
fore, acquiesce in the necessity, which
denounces our separation, and hold
them, as ehold the rest of mankind
] enemies in war-in peace, friends.